No dearth of funds in country, need leaders who work honestly for villages, poor, farmers: Gadkari

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Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. File

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. File | Photo Credit: PTI

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) said determination was nary shortage of wealth successful the state and the request was for governmental leaders who honestly enactment for villages, the mediocre and farmers.

Addressing a relation successful Vidisha successful Madhya Pradesh aft laying the instauration chromatic and inaugurating roadworthy projects costing respective 1000 crore rupees, the Union Minister said helium had the mythological "Draupadi ki thali", which tin provender everyone and guarantee nary 1 goes hungry.

"There is nary dearth of wealth successful this country. There is nary shortage of funds. There is request for governmental leaders to enactment honestly for villages, the mediocre and farmers," the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister asserted.

"I person Draupadi ki thali. Let immoderate fig of radical come. Not a azygous idiosyncratic volition instrumentality hungry. We volition provender everyone, that I tin promise," helium said aft Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Public Works Department Minister Rakesh Singh sought support for roadworthy projects.

'Draupadi ki thali' is simply a fable associated with the Mahabharata and is centred astir the 'akshay patra' that Krishna gave Draupadi to guarantee saints who had travel erstwhile the Pandavas were successful exile were good fed though determination was nary nutrient astatine the clip successful the household.

Noting that much than 10,000 farmers had committed termination successful Maharashtra's Vidarbha portion owed to economical distress and different reasons, helium said, "You mightiness not cognize that I enactment 90% for farmers. I person dedicated my beingness to the origin of ensuring farmers bash not perpetrate suicide. I person made it my mission." The country's husbandman is not lone an "annadata" (food provider), but should besides go an "urjadata" (energy provider), the elder BJP person added.

Underlining the government's vision, Mr. Gadkari said the purpose nether the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to marque India a satellite guru, the world's third-largest economy, and the strongest system successful the world.

"Our state has the spot to execute this," helium emphasised.

He said Indian professionals had carved a niche globally.

"Our bundle engineers predominate crossed the world. When I met the Prime Minister of Japan, helium asked maine if our bundle engineers had mathematics genes successful their mind. In the U.S. and the UK, six retired of 10 doctors are Indians. Knowledge is power, spot and energy. This is our future," Mr. Gadkari said.

In his address, Mr. Gadkari praised Mr. Chouhan, the Lok Sabha MP from Vidisha, saying the latter, arsenic CM, had importantly boosted the State's cultivation income and irrigation facilities. Mr. Chouhan was Madhya Pradesh CM from 2005 till 2018 and past again from 2020 till 2023.

Published - January 17, 2026 07:22 p.m. IST

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